James Sweet wrote:
"clifto" wrote in message
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Sam Goldwasser wrote:
clifto writes:
James Sweet wrote:
I'm well aware of the current state of SSD technology. The drive you
linked
to is a tiny 32GB capacity and the price is astronimical at over $500.
That's enough money to purchase several terabytes of magnetic disc
space,
while a 40GB hard drive can be had for under $50, I don't think anyone
even
manfactures anything less than 80GB anymore even in laptop drives.

My first hard drive was $30,000.00 per gigabyte. (Specifically, it was
$600 for 20 megabytes. Dreaming of a gigabyte was a cerebral exercise.)

Geez, that cheap? What did DEC RK05s go for when they were
state-of-the-art?

I should only dream of having that kind of money. I'm talking about the
Seagate ST-225 for my first drive, the big price breakthrough on the
Winchester drive type. I still have a few of them and I bet they work
if I can find a computer with an ISA bus to plug the controller into.
They had a superfast 65 ms access time, much better than the 120 ms
times of earlier drives.



I still have an XT over at my mom's place with the 30MB RLL version of that
drive, unfortunately I tried to fire it up about a year ago and the hard
drive made some unhealthy noises and I got a boot error

They had a stepper chip for the head stepper motor that would go out,
and was replaceable. I repaired one drive this way. You might be able
to salvage it if that's the problem.

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